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Buried Angels: Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. You Cannot Change the Past. Easter, 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind – including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack. You Cannot Escape The Future. Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation, aided by his wife, crime writer Erica Falck, who has always been fascinated by the mystery of Ebba’s abandonment and the family’s tragic history. When dried blood is found under the floorboards of the old house, it seems that the cold case involving the missing family is about to be brought back to life. And soon, Patrik and Erica are consumed by the hunt for a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Bowerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001604/bk_hcuk_001604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history - almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and - eventually - one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens - the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory. This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power - and layered meaning - of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award-winning author M. T. Anderson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: M. T. Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007461/bk_brll_007461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Photographer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
The sergeant took some from each box and spread them around the floor so they could all see. Dozens upon dozens of them. DI Rachel Narey's guess was that there were a few hundred in all. Photographs. Many of them were in crowd scenes, some just sitting on a park bench or walking a dog or waiting for a bus or working in shops. They seemed to have no idea they'd been photographed. All women. All attractive. All between their late teens and early 30s. Hundreds of them. A dawn raid on the home of a suspected rapist leads to a chilling discovery, a disturbing collection hidden under floorboards. Narey is terrified at the potential scale of what they've found and of what brutalities it may signal. When the photographs are ruled inadmissible as evidence and the man walks free from court, Narey knows she's let down the victim she'd promised to protect and a monster is back on the streets. Tony Winter's young family is under threat from Internet trolls, and he is determined to protect them whatever the cost. He and Narey are in a race against time to find the unknown victims of the photographer's lens - before he strikes again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Monteath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ssuk/000041/bk_ssuk_000041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Aylesford Skull: The Adventures of Langdon St Ives, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden within a mermaid's wooden sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from beneath the floorboards an old museum. All while an eccentric inventor - he Sleeper - dreams of a passage to the centre of the hollow earth. And by dreaming, brings the passage into being....Pursued by kidnappers thinking of riches and murder, Katherine Perkins and her two cousins must descend into the depths of the hollow earth in order to return the Sleeper to his ancestral home on the shores of Lake Windermere. But to awaken him might mean the end of his dream, the closing of the Windermere Passage, leaving the three intrepid explorers marooned in a savage land forgotten by time itself.Zeuglodon, set in the world envisioned in James P Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan, is a landscape of colour, mystery, and adventure, in which reality and fantasy are shifting currents, and nothing is quite what it seems to be.James P Blaylock is one of the founding fathers of modern steampunk along with fellow writers and friends Tim Powers and K.W. Jeter. He has won the World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Awards. Blaylock lives in Orange CA with his wife, they have two sons. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Gaminara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004393/bk_adbl_004393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What She Saw , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min
A gripping psychological thriller with a heart-pounding twist She lied to her daughter to save her family. Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another. People say they’re more like best friends than mother and daughter. It’s the relationship every mother dreams of. But their closeness means that Beth struggles to make friends. Her mother has kept her sheltered from the world. She’s more reliant on her mother’s love. More vulnerable. When Beth finds an envelope hidden under the floorboards of their home, the contents make her heart stop. Everything she thought she knew about her mother is a lie. And she realises there is no one she can turn to for help. What if you’ve been protected from strangers your whole life, but the one person you can’t trust is the person closest to home? What She Saw is a gripping psychological thriller with an incredible twist that will make your jaw drop. If you love The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl, or anything by B. A. Paris you’ll be consumed by this. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jasmine Blackborow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150322/bk_acx0_150322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Attic Child (eBook, ePUB)
'An incredibly important book . . . a beautifully crafted, compelling story . . . which will undoubtedly break your heart but also make it sing.' Mike Gayle'This is important storytelling about issues of race and privilege . . .that will stay with me for a long time.' Tracy Chevalier'Just brilliant.' Dorothy Koomson'Powerful and emotional' Lisa JewellTwo children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant, he dreams of his family in Africa even if, as the years pass, he struggles to remember his mother's face, and sometimes his real name . . .Decades later, Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege, will find herself banished to the same attic. Lying under the floorboards of the room is an old porcelain doll, an unusual beaded claw necklace and, most curiously, a sentence etched on the wall behind an old cupboard, written in an unidentifiable language. Artefacts that will offer her a strange kind of comfort, and lead her to believe that she was not the first child to be imprisoned there . . . Lola Jaye has created a hauntingly powerful, emotionally charged and unique dual-narrative novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging, seen through the lens of Black British History in The Attic Child.- Shop: buecher
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Bradley Farm: A Legacy of Love: Bradley Farm Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
Rebellious love. Hidden secrets. It may just take a city girl to save the family farm. Jane dreams of marrying her high school sweetheart and raising a brood of kids on his beloved family farm. Despite her parents’ disapproval and her boyfriend’s draft card, she exchanges hurried vows before he ships off to Vietnam. Back on the farm, Jane must fight her own battle with a mother-in-law who frowns on her big city upbringing. Determined to prove she’s cut out for country living, the fiery redhead rolls up her sleeves to explore every inch of the family business. Beneath creaking floorboards and layers of dust, she unearths ghostly secrets...and a rising mountain of debt that threatens to tear her dreams for the future apart. To save the homestead, she schemes up a plan to bring the old farm into the modern age and out of the hands of the collectors.Under the shadow of unsolved mysteries and the critical eye of her mother-in-law, can she hold on to a home-sweet-home worthy of her heroic husband...if he ever returns at all?Bradley Farm is the first stand-alone romantic mystery in a sweeping family saga series. If you like touching tales of young love, strong-willed heroines, and rustic country backdrops, then you’ll love Mary Jane Forbes’ story of finding her way home.Buy Bradley Farm to sow the seeds of a heartwarming family history today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Dylan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163408/bk_acx0_163408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Geoffrey Giuliano: In Conversation with Ruth and Angela McCartney, Volume 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
Episode 6: Jim buys Angie a mink coat, Paul does not approve. Linda did not appreciate pretty ladies working around Paul. Jim warns Angie not to criticize Paul and Linda. The ladies sleep rough on the floorboards. Jim McCartney’s health declines. Jealousy in the McCartney clan. Leaving Rembrandt for a much smaller bungalow. Jim’s last days. Cynthia Lennon pays her respects. Paul, Linda and the kids say goodbye. Paul hugs Angie and tells her, “you’ll never want for anything.”Angie and Ruth break down. Jim repeatedly saw the Grim Reaper at the window. Paul wanted to be the first one to know when Jim died. Poppy’s stopped! Paul and Linda did not attend Jim’s funereal. Jim’s clothes are pretty much looted by the Liverpool family only hours after his death. The relatives begin to give Angie the cold shoulder. George and Ringo were very kind to the girls. Bad vibes from Paul McCartney and Wings. Dressing room drama. Paul advises Jim to get rid of Angie. Weird times on Paul’s Scottish farm. Old Jim had to sleep on a mattress in the cold stone floor. Ruth had to use a horse blanket. Flies in the milk. Little Mary is given a toke on a joint. Paul’s kids draw on the new furniture. Contains adult language and mature themes. Not recommended for children. Dedicated to Vrndarani Devi 1953-2017 Produced by Fred Betschen Edited by Macc Kay Music by AudioNautix.com Project Coordinator Alex Franchi For Icon Audio Arts Brandon Stickney Eden Giuliano ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159628/bk_acx0_159628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Misguided Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min
Well, it isn’t theft, Stellan Nieves tells himself, not when you’re stealing from a crook. Stellan, a married mid-20s Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan “Squeezebox” Kovačević. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox’s warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk. Ditching his sensible Brooks Brothers suits and wingtip Oxfords, Stellan resurfaces in a small college town in Vermont. Certain no one would ever look for him there, he reinvents himself as Pete Harris, with a beard, wire frame eyeglasses, jeans, plaid shirts, hiking boots, and a pickup truck. A vengeful Squeezebox becomes apoplectic at the theft. He hunts manically for Stellan, but Federal indictments put an end to his search. Charged under the RICO Act, he receives a 60-year sentence. His forever home will be a 6’ x 8’ cell in a small federal prison. The only way Squeezebox will ever leave prison is in a pine box. Time passes, and serendipity plays her hand. While taking courses at the local college, a bulletin board notice seeking volunteers to teach English and math classes at the nearby prison catches Pete’s attention. He mulls it over. Why not? He can spare the few hours. The tension is palpable as the two men unexpectedly face each other across a small table in the prison waiting room. Will this chance meeting lead to their complete undoing, transformational redemption, or none of the above? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kuhn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235280/bk_acx0_235280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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True Love: Nantucket Brides Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 855min
Jude Deveraux, the New York Times best-selling author of unforgettable romance, returns with a breathtaking first book in a fantastic new series: the Nantucket Brides trilogy. Set on the magical Massachusetts island, True Love introduces characters from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Deveraux's classic novels. Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming 19th-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman's relationship to the Madsen family is a mystery to the spirited Alix - fresh from a romantic breakup - but for reasons of her own, Alix accepts the quirky bequest, in part because it gives her time to plan her best friend's storybook wedding. But unseen forces move behind the scenes, creaking Kingsley House's ancient floorboards. It seems that Adelaide Kingsley had a rather specific task for Alix: to solve the strange disappearance of one of the Kingsley women, Valentina, more than 200 years ago. If that wasn't troubling enough, Alix must deal with the arrogant (and extremely good-looking) architect Jared Montgomery, who is living in the property's guesthouse. Unbeknown to Alix, Jared has been charged with looking after her while she lives on the island - an easy task for him, considering the undeniable chemistry between the two. But Jared harbors secrets of his own, which, if revealed, may drive a wedge between the pair. With a glorious Nantucket wedding on the horizon, sparks fly, and the ghosts of the past begin to reveal themselves - some of them literally. Finding their lives inextricably entwined with the turbulent fortunes of their ancestors, Alix and Jared discover that only by righting the wrongs of the past can they hope to be together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003564/bk_rand_003564_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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